African Web3 start-up from Kenya Crypsense Digital group, is the first African start-up to qualify for Silicon based Draper Vechain aWeb3 accelerator programme.
The 12 week program targets high growth blockchain companies and is part of the Draper University program. Draper Vechain was founded by Timothy Cook Draper, a top tier venture capital investor in the technology space that counts some of the top technology companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Coinbase, Skype, Baidu and many more among his most prominent investments.
To date Draper University has graduated over 1000 start-up founders and has raised in excess of $350 million in early stage funding. VeChain is a top tier Layer1 blockchain that offers global enterprise solutions and derives its value from activities by members within the ecosystem solving real world economic problems.
The collaborative program offers necessary support for start-ups in blockchain and web 3 to get all the industry mentorship and support necessary to scale their impactful solutions globally.
“This is an amazing opportunity to accelerate Web3 adoption in Africa through the program and partnerships. We have so much untapped talent and potential within our continent in blockchain and Web3. I am excited for Africa and I can’t wait to see where this opportunity takes us,” Alice Anangi, Co-founder & CEO, Crypsense Digital Group
Crypsense Digital Group is the first Digital Assets Capacity Building and management Platform in Africa that offers an end to end solution for institutional adoption of blockchain and digital assets in Africa.
Crypense offers capacity building, asset management and custodial solutions, asset financing and an accelerator Launchpad to support blockchain and crypto start-ups in Africa.
Crypsense is a brainchild of The Africa Blockchain Center, one of the start-ups at Adanian Labs, a venture studio that aims to establish, nurture, and scale 300 impact-driven tech start-ups across Africa.
